Test Automation Specialist

Trantor; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Trantor in Bengaluru is seeking a QA Automation Engineer with strong Playwright expertise to design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test solutions. You will migrate legacy tests to automation and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.

You will work on Playwright with TypeScript, API testing, data validation, and reporting using HTML, Allure, and Extent reports. Collaboration with technical leads on sprint planning and governance is expected to ensure continuous quality.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on playbook for Playwright automation with TypeScript.
• Strong automation framework design patterns and data-driven testing.
• Experience migrating Selenium-based automation to Playwright is preferred.
• Good debugging with logs, traces, and video capture for failures.
• Experience in CI/CD and test reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Manual to Automation Migration: convert legacy test cases into robust Playwright scripts.
• Playwright Automation Development: build and maintain frameworks with parallel execution.
• API Testing & Data Validation: automate API tests and validate end-to-end flows.
• CI/CD Integration & Reporting: integrate tests into Jenkins/GitHub Actions and enhance reports.
• Delivery & Governance: support sprint planning, traceability, and documentation.

Skills

Playwright

Automation Engineering

Selenium

API Testing

CI/CD & DevOps

Version Control

Tools

Playwright

Rest Assured

Postman

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Allure Reports

Extent Reports

Docker

Selenium WebDriver

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright automation to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and maintainable automated test solutions. The ideal candidate should have a solid foundation in automation engineering, experience migrating manual test cases to automation, and the ability to integrate automated testing into modern CI/CD pipelines.

Project Objectives

• Analyze and automate legacy/manual test suites using Playwright.
• Ensure stable and reliable execution of automated tests within CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve regression testing efficiency through Playwright's parallel execution capabilities.
• Maintain high-quality automation frameworks and comprehensive test reporting.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manual to Automation Migration

• Analyze and understand existing manual test cases, including test steps, test data, expected results, and dependencies.
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, and missing scenarios in legacy test suites.
• Convert prioritized manual test cases into robust Playwright automation scripts following established coding standards.
• Rationalize existing test cases by eliminating duplicates, improving clarity, and identifying critical regression coverage.

2. Playwright Automation Development

• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript
• Role-based selectors
• Utilize Playwright features such as:
• Assertions
• Trace Viewer
• Screenshots and video recording
• Parallel execution
• Test tagging and sharding
• Network interception

3. API Testing & Data Validation

• Develop and maintain API automation using:
• Playwright API Request Context
• Rest Assured (Java)
• Perform API validation using Postman where required.
• Validate end-to-end business flows across both UI and API layers.
• Perform backend validation using SQL whenever applicable.

4. CI/CD Integration & Reporting

• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines using:
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Maintain and enhance execution reports using:
• Playwright HTML Reports
• Allure Reports
• Extent Reports
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for automation failures and proactively reduce flaky tests through engineering best practices.

5. Delivery & Governance

• Collaborate with technical leads to support:
• Sprint planning and estimation
• Velocity tracking
• Burn-down management
• Change control for expanding automation scope
• Automation coverage reports
• Known limitations and gaps
• Execution guides and handover documentation
• Traceability between requirements and automated test cases

Required Skills

Playwright (Mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation.
• Assertions
• Responsible use of retries
• Dynamic element handling
• iFrames
• Parallel execution

Automation Engineering

• Strong understanding of automation framework design patterns, including:
• Fixtures-based architecture
• Data-driven testing
• Reusable utilities and common libraries
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills using:
• Logs
• Trace Viewer
• Video recordings

Selenium

• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver using Java.
• Experience migrating Selenium-based automation to Playwright is preferred.

API Testing

• Hands-on experience with:
• Rest Assured
• Playwright API
• Postman
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and request/response validation.

CI/CD & DevOps

• Experience with:
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Understanding of:
• Automated test triggers
• Build artifacts
• Test reporting

Version Control

• Proficiency with Git, including:
• Branching strategies
• Pull Requests
• Code reviews

Good to Have

• Appium
• Docker
• Containerized test execution
• SQL for backend validation
• Jira, Zephyr, Xray, or TestRail
• Experience in regulated industries such as Healthcare or FinTech
• Awareness of audit trails and PII/PHI compliance requirements

Process & Delivery Expectations

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to participate in sprint ceremonies and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong documentation skills with focus on traceability and maintainability.
• Ability to deliver high-quality automation within project timelines while adhering to engineering best practices.